The restructuring events database contains factsheets with data on large-scale restructuring events reported in the principal national media and company websites in each EU Member State. This database was created in 2002.
Yorkshire and the Humber; South Yorkshire; Barnsley
Location of affected unit(s)
Doncaster
Sector
Manufacturing Manufacturing Of Machinery And Equipment Manufacture Of Machinery And Equipment N.E.C. 28 - Manufacture of machinery and equipment n.e.c.
New offshoring locations
Italy
325 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
19 December 2006
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
Description
A tractor factory in Doncaster is to close with the loss of 325 jobs. Workers at the McCormick assembly plant were told on Monday that production is to switch to Italy in the new year. The move will bring to an end 57 years of tractor production at the site. Only 25 of the 350 employees will remain in the sales and spare parts divisions. Italian industrial group ARGO, which took over the company in 2001, said the business had been loss-making for the past four years. A three-month period of negotiation with the unions started on Monday.
Sources
19 December 2006: BBC Website
Citation
Eurofound (2006), McCormick, Offshoring/Delocalisation in United Kingdom, factsheet number 64683, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/64683.
Digitisation and automation technologies, including artificial intelligence (AI), can affect working conditions in a variety of ways and their use in the workplace raises a host of new ethical concerns.
The retail banking sector is fertile ground for studying the impacts of digitalisation on work and employment. Financial services are increasingly provided online, without the intermediary of customer-facing institutions.
European labour markets have recovered strongly from COVID-19. By the end of 2021, little more than 18 months after the start of the pandemic, employment rates in the EU were almost at pre-crisis levels.
